Posted on 06/12/2012 8:25:41 PM PDT by presidio9
In the new book, America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom, Daily Beast columnist Meghan McCain and comedian Michael Ian Black take a road trip across America and write about their experiences. The excerpt below is from their visit to New Orleans, and what happens after Meghan and Michael light up.
Meghan McCain: -SNIP-
Let me put it right out there. Yes, I have smoked marijuana a few times in the past. The first time was on a trip to Amsterdam in college and I was surprised by how mild of an experience marijuana was (and in my experience still is). It is a plant that makes me mellow and giggly and, quite frankly, tired. Yet, depending on where you are in the United States, smoking is possession, and that is either a misdemeanor or a felony. Split that hair however you want, it’s still a crime.
That being said, I believe that marijuana should be legalized. This is not a decision I have come to quickly or lightly. Over the course of the last four years, in discussions with friends pro and con, I believe the legal ramifications of possessing marijuana are egregious. For one reason, I think it is a substance that does no more damage than alcohol does, and second, if we legalized marijuana in this country and taxed the hell out of it, our economic problems would at least be temporarily helped a great deal. In fact, you could even use the revenue stream to pay for universal health care if you wanted.
Mostly though, I do not completely understand the allure and taboo associated with marijuana. -SNIP-
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True, very few taxes would be collected at first, and eventually, none.
Weed grows like weed, it isn't Scotch. As time passed whoever wasn't growing it or picking it from the vacant lots and from the side of the road, would be receiving it free from their friends, their kids, it would be everywhere.
If she had any redeaming qualities, we wouldn’t even know she existed. Because she is so messed up, the left loves to flaunt her stuff. She is too dim-whitted to realize she is nothing but the village idiot.
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You nailed it on with those questions. My first thought on reading the headline was, “How is her opinion relevant, on well, ANYTHING?” I guess it's just the Kardashian effect or the cult of celebrity. But she isn't even a celebrity. I don't get it at all. The janitor at my grand kids’ school has a more learned and erudite approach to the subject of legalizing marijuana than Meghan McCain. Are we nuts listening to this little twit?
As evidenced by the stupid stuff she says using Valley Girl language on a regular basis. Like, oh my God!
She doesn’t excite me, either, but give me a few (or more) tokes, and I’d “take one for the team”.
Dangit, I don’t want to be on the same side of an issue with this wench. Can’t she go back to campaigning for the homos?
Nah, she’s still dumb, and still in desperate need of an editor.
For example:
“Over the course of the last four years, in discussions with friends pro and con, I believe the legal ramifications of possessing marijuana are egregious.”
Firstly, she has to have discussions with friends for years to decide whether something is egregious? Clearly not a sign of a sharp thinker.
Secondly, the sentence is a grammatical nightmare. It should read:
“Over the course of the last four years, through discussions with friends, both pro and con, I came to believe that the legal ramifications of possessing marijuana were egregious.”
Hey Meg, if you read this, that first one was free. Have your mom toss me 100k a year, and I’ll proofread the rest of the crap you write.
Right, just because you could manufacture product yourself, doesn’t mean that most people will choose too. Anyone can grow tomatoes in their yard, but most still choose to buy them from the store for convenience, quality, availability, or other reasons.
Also, $300/oz is still less than the street value for the quality of stuff you get from a California dispensary. So, even with taxes and the business marking it up to make a profit, the consumer is saving maybe 25% via legalization.
The less Meghan McCain says, the better!
Or eat more.
Like the people doing the bath salt thing would become “converts” to the marijuana religion?
Or maybe spray paint will be the next hot kick?
I frankly would rather have marijuana illegal than let the state become the new drug cartel through taxation and invasion of privacy.
I don’t think the states should profit from something that is federally illegal, that is racketeering.
If you want to grow the stuff in your garden like a vegetable, I don’t have a problem with it.
But, I don’t think registering with the government as a pot user is a really smart idea...
People are being arrested every single day because they went and gave the government all the necessary investigative information for surveillance.
Stupid is as stupid does...
How about just simply erasing all laws on marijuana at the state level and let the federal government take up the burden and costs of enforcement?
If marijuana is supposedly so safe, why does it need to be “regulated” ???
Like the people doing the bath salt thing would become “converts” to the marijuana religion?
Or maybe spray paint will be the next hot kick?
I frankly would rather have marijuana illegal than let the state become the new drug cartel through taxation and invasion of privacy.
I don’t think the states should profit from something that is federally illegal, that is racketeering.
If you want to grow the stuff in your garden like a vegetable, I don’t have a problem with it.
But, I don’t think registering with the government as a pot user is a really smart idea...
People are being arrested every single day because they went and gave the government all the necessary investigative information for surveillance.
Stupid is as stupid does...
How about just simply erasing all laws on marijuana at the state level and let the federal government take up the burden and costs of enforcement?
If marijuana is supposedly so safe, why does it need to be “regulated” ???
She is a rave party f*ck pig...
The stupid control freaks willing to trade away everyone else's freedom for a little bag of weed is pathetic.
How about simply ERASING state laws on marijuana and tossing the whole smelly pile onto the feds?
I’d rather have it illegal than allow the states to become the new drug cartels.
I do support that all businesses or public positions should be able to test and reject applicants based on their drug use.
In addition, I believe no one on any public subsidy should be permitted any drug use and should be subject to frequent testing.
Legalizing it destroys the economic incentive for drug use. Drug testing eliminates the people who know they shouldn't do it if they want to succeed at anything.
Fat chance!
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